More Comment – Page 211

  • Opinion

    Courtesy title

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    It is bad enough having the media routinely ignoring the terms of the Architects’ Registration Act and calling any old plansmith an architect without you doing the same in your story about the Prince of Wales’s “Surfbury” development (News February 6).

  • Opinion

    Seeing the light

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    It’s scary to find out that we have something else to worry about other than the impending worldwide collapse of the architectural profession and its client base — the loss of the 100W incandescent light bulb.

  • Cedric Price with... Michael, Rolf or Robert?
    Opinion

    Mystery deepens

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    The mystery man next to Cedric Price (Archive February 6) looks like a young Michael Brawne.

  • Early start at Portland Place.
    Opinion

    RIBA celebrations are off the menu

    2009-02-13T00:00:00Z

    To add to the RIBA’s problems over this year’s awards is the delicate issue of the annual dinner, to have been held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in June. Insiders say it was cancelled under pressure from the regions, which have become increasingly resentful that the only architects to make ...

  • Amanda Baillieu
    Opinion

    Regeneration loses its magic

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    As the boom comes to an end, will anything of substance remain from New Labour’s urban policies?

  • Opinion

    Learn – and teach – lessons of history

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The government is taking money from BSF and giving it to the car industry. Be very afraid

  • Opinion

    Does working for free devalue the profession?

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    No fee means no value says the RIBA’s Jane Duncan, but Stuart McColl argues it is just a business tool

  • Opinion

    Regulate title and function

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Jonathan Braddick (Letters January 23) puts a strong case for the architect function to be bound into UK legislation.

  • Opinion

    Blind on bland

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Steve Cooper says PFI projects might be rubbish or bland (Debate January 30), but that they are finished on time and within budget! Something of an own goal, I think.

  • Opinion

    Strike a light

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    I wholeheartedly support Jonathan Glancey’s excellent piece on the tungsten light (January 16).

  • Opinion

    Sorry for rubbish

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    In response to letters last week about my “rubbish” remark, I sincerely apologise for any offence this caused — my quotation was taken out of context.

  • Opinion

    Water force

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The response to your article (Letters January 23) on the fountains at Centre Point is encouraging. It would be wonderful if they could be incorporated into the new forecourt design, or at least a good home found for them.

  • On a roll: H&dM’s inspiration?
    Opinion

    Bun fight

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The three Herzog & de Meuron-designed towers planned at London Bridge and revealed by BD (January 16) have now acquired the nickname The Breadsticks.

  • Opinion

    ARG-umentative

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The Arb Reform Group is not known to pull its punches in debates with appointed board members, but new recruit Ruth Brennan, who is standing for election to the board for the first time, managed to have a run-in with chief executive Alison Carr before the ballot papers were even ...

  • Opinion

    Majestic move

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    The Carlton Club, a long-time favourite watering hole for architects at Mipim, is no more.

  • Opinion

    City limits

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    If wisdom comes with age, why are so many Brazilian architects up in arms over 101-year-old Oscar Niemeyer’s latest plans to alter Brasilia?

  • Opinion

    Piste off

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    And finally to Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud who, owing to a skiing accident, was unable to travel home to finish the voiceover for the first programmein the new series.

  • Jonathan Glancey
    Opinion

    Building with mud, glorious mud

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    Using mud to build may be an extreme example of giving preference to local materials, but if we don’t explore such options we are condemned to the banal

  • Opinion

    Don’t bank on it

    2009-02-06T00:00:00Z

    At a time when we are all suffering from the effects of too little regulation, the public will wonder where the Arb Reform Group (Letters January 30) is coming from in wishing to follow the banking profession.

  • Feilden Clegg Bradley did not squander its Accordia winnings.
    Opinion

    We won’t waste Stirling cash

    2009-01-30T00:00:00Z

    We’re not blowing our Stirling cash on parties (News January 23)! We’re using the money to publish a detailed account of the evolution of the Accordia project and the experience of living there.